Ollie
Ollie is a fast, Linux-native desktop app for chatting with local LLMs through Ollama, with optional support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and GroqCloud. Chats and models stay on your machine.
- Chat interface with Markdown, code highlighting, tables and math
- Pull, delete and manage Ollama models without the terminal
- Vision models and PDF/text file attachments
- Monitoring dashboard for CPU, memory and running models
- Cloud provider API keys stored in the system keyring
- Light, dark and system themes
Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.35 or later)
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Usage
Ollie is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.35 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.
Running Ollie on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Ollie AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Ollie
If you want to restrict what Ollie can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Ollie
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Ollie AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Ollie and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Ollie in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Ollie AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the Ollie AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Please consider making the Ollie AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/Ollie if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.
If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.